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depreciation

[dih-pree-shee-ey-shuhn] / dɪˌpri ʃiˈeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
devaluation
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The company said Peacock’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization was $189 million.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

The recent quarter’s figure includes merger-related costs from T-Mobile’s acquisition of USCellular, including accelerated depreciation, net of tax, of $146 million.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

It will lift over time as depreciation is spread over a growing base of revenue tied to CoreWeave’s AI cloud platform, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

The depreciation cost, they approximated, is actually $400 million a year, not $138 million like standard accounting principles had suggested.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Prices kept going up and up, and depreciation of the paper money took a lot of the profit out of it.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

The gold miner said earnings before interest, taxes, depreciations and amortization more than doubled on year to $2.29 billion, aided by higher production volumes and elevated gold prices.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

President Masoud Pezeshkian promised dialogue and acknowledged "legitimate demands" in in a country where inflation soars near 50%, and currency depreciations play havoc with people's hardscrabble lives.

From BBC Jan. 12, 2026

Next year also could see corporates taking advantage of last year’s tax law changes that allow 100% bonus depreciations and immediate expensing of R&D costs.

From MarketWatch Dec. 5, 2025

"Progress in reducing extreme poverty has essentially halted in tandem with subdued global economic growth," he said in a statement, blaming inflation, currency depreciations and broader overlapping crises for the rise in extreme poverty.

From Reuters Oct. 5, 2022

His course now in the campaign silenced men like Hale and Seward who had nagged him for years with their depreciations and suspicions.

From Children of the Market Place by Masters, Edgar Lee




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